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Nation of Insecurity(cultivatelabs.com)
4 points by adam 11y ago|0 comments
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Gaming prediction markets(cultivatelabs.com)
1 points by adam 11y ago|0 comments
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Gaming prediction markets(cultivatelabs.com)
3 points by adam 11y ago|0 comments
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by adam 11y ago
I just went through and made wills for myself and my spouse. Excellent interface and indeed, it took about 10 minutes which just kills (no pun intended) what I was about to go through with a lawyer. Only point of feedback - you say you&#x27
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Why I'm Breaking Up with the Apple Watch(nytimes.com)
80 points by adam 11y ago|82 comments
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Living in the Not Knowing(flyoverworks.com)
1 points by adam 12y ago|0 comments
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by adam 12y ago
I had an opportunity to visit the Chicago regional center a few years ago to meet some of the controllers and learn how their systems work. Everything about the space is meant to keep these guys calm and focused on their job. It literally f
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by adam 12y ago
There are a few companies that have made it in to YC from Chicago over the years.
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by adam 12y ago
This system could always fall back to the more general populace review if there isn't enough data from your friends/acquaintances. I agree a 5-star rating system tells you little. But it's at least some signal and combine tha
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by adam 12y ago
The thing you really have to watch out for here if you have lower prices published is the big guys seeing that and thinking they can get your services for that much too. You have to have your story really nailed of why the 2k-5k services ar
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by adam 12y ago
Congrats on shipping. :) As others have mentioned, I was turned off by the pricing model. Your idea of taking a % of amount saved, or charging me after you've achieved savings would be much more palatable. That said, if you have the da
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Why Whole Foods Is Moving in to One of the Poorest Neighborhoods in Chicago(washingtonpost.com)
117 points by adam 12y ago|96 comments
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Storytime – a new, content-focused Rails 4+ CMS and blogging engine(flyoverworks.com)
10 points by adam 12y ago|0 comments
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by adam 12y ago
MS has experimented with prediction markets internally off and on. This particular market is being run by David Rothschild who is a researcher at Microsoft. He's run the site http://predictwise.com for quite some time and d
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by adam 12y ago
All you need to do is go to Apple's claim they have a design driven methodology. It's fairly predictable then when they roll out something like Apple Pay that they're going to not do it until they have the requisite business
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How to see in to the future(ft.com)
10 points by adam 12y ago|0 comments
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Understanding Apple's Wearables Strategy(techpinions.com)
21 points by adam 12y ago|15 comments
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by adam 12y ago
Also the project's official site where you can get more background about the race and what relevance this has: https://sites.google.com/site/dictyworldrace2014/
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Who will win the 2014 Dicty vs. HL60 cells world race?(scicast.org)
12 points by adam 12y ago|1 comments
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Inkling (YC W06) is hiring a Rails developer(docs.google.com)
1 points by adam 13y ago
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by adam 13y ago
Biggest thing I took away from this is organize your contacts from the very beginning of starting your business so you can easily turn them in to mailing lists. There are so many different types of people I've talked to over the years
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by adam 13y ago
Sorry for that experience, I'll be sure to pass that along and get it rectified. I'm sure you're not the only one who would have an issue with this.
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by adam 13y ago
If you're talking about how we resolve questions when the answer is (supposedly) known - we try to be pretty careful about what sources we tap and have a growing list of subject matter experts we reach out to to understand what may rea
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by adam 13y ago
Thanks - I agree (although this is a non-profit effort by a University so technically we're not selling anything.) We'll put a big call to action on the homepage to review the forecasting questions. In the meantime, here's a
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Show HN: SciCast, Science and Tech Combinatorial Prediction Market by GMU(scicast.org)
14 points by adam 13y ago|7 comments
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Why is Apple being so nostalgic?(newyorker.com)
3 points by adam 13y ago|0 comments
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A little "less" in "relentless"(blog.inklingmarkets.com)
1 points by adam 13y ago|0 comments
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Slow Change Interaction Design(interactions.acm.org)
1 points by adam 13y ago|0 comments
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by adam 13y ago
This is actually why I posted this. It seems PLATO has never gotten its due for the truly revolutionary concepts it introduced. I remember - in the early eighties - playing networked games and participating in tournaments, sending "per
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PLATO (computer system)(en.wikipedia.org)
55 points by adam 13y ago|23 comments

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